Chapter 1180 Breaking the city!
Zhao Daqiang's attack on the Japanese city walls was not actually a rapid advance of the entire company, but an infantry rank in front and an infantry rank in the back, but the fire rank was hanging at the end.
Because they did not use the most commonly used scattered troops in the national army to charge forward, but the 200-meter front was too narrow for them to put down two infantry platoons.
One infantry platoon has three infantry squads in front, one is slightly behind, and the other is behind, forming a large triangle between the three squads.
Each infantry of the infantry squad is advancing staggered between 3 to 5 meters. If you look down from the sky, you can clearly see the advance formation of an infantry squad. From the front, it is an inverted triangle with one triangle on the left and right. The three triangles form a large triangle. The spacing between each point is about 30 meters, and the margin remains inclined by 45o.
Three infantry squads form a large triangle, which revolves around in cycles, three platoons, three companies, and even three battalions.
In the middle of the combat triangle formed by the infantry squad, the squad leader holding a submachine gun, the squad light machine gun group and the grenade group are in a straight line.
The four-row regiment that has been equipped with Czech semi-automatic rifles has completely reached the level of equipment of American cowboys on the Pacific battlefield.
The first offensive triangle was made by a squad deputy carrying an MP28 submachine gun with two infantry equipped with bolted single-shot rifles. On the flank was protected by two infantry equipped with semi-automatic rifles, led by precise shooters carrying Mogansinna rifles, and on the other flank was a veteran equipped with a semi-automatic rifle and two infantry equipped with bolted single-shot rifles.
In the attack state, nine infantry soldiers can spit out more than 120 bullets to the enemy within 30 seconds, which is almost equivalent to the firepower value that two Japanese squads can pour out, and this is only auxiliary firepower.
The sharpest thing in the entire infantry squad is the light machine gun in the center of the three triangles and another MP28 submachine gun. In 30 seconds, the light machine gun and MP28 submachine gun can fire more than 150 bullets. Just in terms of firing bullets, an infantry squad's firepower value in 30 seconds can reach nearly 300 bullets in an attack state.
In contrast, a 54-man infantry squad, two light machine guns and more than 40 infantrymen, the total number of bullets fired in 30 seconds was only more than 400 rounds. If it were a squad with a number of people that was comparable to the infantry squad of the Four-Line Regiment, it would have been no longer known where it was killed in seconds.
Grenades are also very important killing weapons for infantrymen. Although the range is slightly short, their direct aiming range of more than 300 meters is enough to ensure that the infantry squad destroys the civil fortifications in front of the infantry squad during the attack and advancement.
This is the three-three system that Tang Dao has improved based on the current equipment composition of the four-line regiment. Its core not only maintains the flexibility and multi-level nature of the original three-three tactics, but also ensures the core of the team's firepower. All offensive defenses revolve around the light machine gun and grenade firepower groups. It seems to be somewhat similar to the machine gun squad tactics of the German Empire at this time, but it maintains the flexibility of the infantry more.
This offensive and defensive formation with clear distribution of firepower and mutual assistance does not have the disadvantage that the West is currently widely used for multi-layer propulsion of scattered soldiers. What is particularly important is that the intervals between each combat group are maintained at a reasonable distance, avoiding the problem of excessive losses when encountering artillery fire coverage.
According to calculations, a Japanese 90mm mortar shell can only cause one casualty when it falls into the attack formation, and a 105 howitzer can only kill two groups at most. Even if it encounters the most terrifying machine gun side fire, there will be no casualties of more than two groups. However, under the same circumstances as ordinary lines, there will be as many as dozens of people.
Because this tactic is always kept in the center of three triangular types, unless it is suddenly hit by three to four 75mm caliber shells, the machine gunner or grenade team can always be retained, so that the team will not be fully decommissioned after the team is reduced.
Of course, this kind of casualties is calculated when the Japanese army's artillery fire is fierce. At this moment, the greatest function of the San San formation is not to prevent casualties, but to maximize the firepower.
In addition to the more than ten light and heavy machine guns and the rifle firepower of more than 100 infantry soldiers located on both wings to avoid their advance, even if they were on assault, the firepower of the two infantry platoons of the six infantry squadrons dispatched by Zhao Daqiang in the first company was not as low as a Japanese infantry squadron.
What's more, it is still unknown whether there is an infantry squadron that can fight back now.
Anyway, there will be no more than ten soldiers falling down during the rushing.
For the assault troops charging against the city defense fortifications, casualties are no less.
As the infantry platoon advanced, there were also medical soldiers, and the fallen soldiers were dragged by them to hide in the bunkers they could hide in the wilderness and then rescued them as soon as possible.
In the falling bodies of brothers who are together day and night, finding brothers who can survive is also a difficult choice for all medical soldiers and a huge test for their psychology.
Medical soldiers also have wartime regulations. The only thing they give priority to rescue is not the soldiers who were shot. Although this is cruel, it is the battlefield. Sacrifice is inevitable. What they have to do is to ensure that all soldiers who can still survive will continue to survive, rather than show sadness in the face of death.
If you want to have the right to be sad, you have to wait to win this damn war initiated by the Japanese.
Not only do they have to bear the tremendous psychological pressure of choosing to rescue their comrades, they also have to face the threat of their own death in the face of gunfire.
But on the battlefield, the officers and soldiers of the Four Army Regiment also protected them the most closely. Medical soldiers are the first lifeline of all officers and soldiers. As long as they were shot, whether they could survive in the field hospital for rescue depends on their ability.
Advancing towards the enemy's rain of bullets, he tried his best to shoot bullets in his gun chamber, but whether he could still survive after being shot was determined by God's expression, the rest depends on whether the medical staff was powerful enough.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! In fact, the Chinese soldiers are brave enough to advance in the rain of bullets and broken walls of the city walls and broken by explosives. However, the Japanese army is by no means mud. Even if they are 20mm machine guns washing the floor, pressing people into pieces of meat in sandbags, they are still fighting back.
Machine guns and rifles keep shooting from places you think of and unexpectedly. In the night, they are like meteors constantly flashing, bringing a strong breath of death.
The fighting will of the Japanese veterans in the early stages of the war must not be ignored.
Ten minutes, when the infantry platoons of infantry that completely suppressed the Japanese firepower entered the city wall through the open area and began to clear the Japanese army hiding on the city wall and behind the city wall. The Japanese army, who were attacked on both sides or even three sides, had no power to resist, and the entire defense line completely collapsed.
They were either shot and killed by automatic firearms and semi-automatic firearms on the way to escape by giving up the defense line, or they were killed by mortar shells or grenades in burning fortifications.
During the whole process, the Japanese army had no artillery support. As long as there was a cannon, the officers and soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment fell on the battlefield were at least several times that of now.
Fortunately, Saburo Okabe was too confident. Before the war, when he gathered three and a half divisions to surround the Chinese army in eastern Jin, he never thought that one day the Chinese could not only defeat his encirclement but also counterattack and attack his front-line logistics base.
The battle between the Japanese army in the entire Ximen defense line was bombarded with explosives from the city wall, but it lasted for less than 20 minutes. Nearly a hundred Japanese army's fighting spirit completely collapsed and they fled into the city along the paths in the residential area.
Because the four teams have been in a defensive position after obtaining a mechanic equipment, this is the first time that the four teams have completely shown their fangs in an attack state.
As soon as the fangs came out, the Japanese tear them to pieces, and blood splattered everywhere.
I can only say that these Japanese people are unlucky.
But there were Japanese people who were even more unlucky than them. A Japanese infantry squadron who was ordered to reinforce Xicheng happened to hit Cai Yongguan's gun who had entered the city.
Originally, Cai Yongguan was furious when he didn't get the main attacker. There were many alleys in the city, and it was difficult to chase the Japanese. Faced with the Japanese's suicide-style tactics, how could he let it go?
The pouring rain of bullets made the Japanese soldiers on the second-line of the army doubt their lives. When the Chinese firepower was so strong? When Cai Yongguan also put out the 12.7mm heavy machine gun, the Japanese army hiding behind the brick wall was also penetrated by the terrible heavy machine gun bullets. The baggage soldiers who were completely stunned no longer insisted and turned around and ran away.
Since then, the city of Xicheng has been broken!
In addition to the defeated reinforcements of the Japanese army, more than 600 Japanese troops were killed in the Xichengmen area, and more than 100 defeated soldiers were defeated and fled into the city!
The telegrams sent by the Four Lines Regiment to the siege units were less than an hour after the bombardment began, that is, the 28th minute after the infantry began the attack.
This good news made Kawata Kazumi who had received the loss of Xicheng position, even nearly 10,000 brigade commanders of the regiments of the Chinese Army who participated in the siege were stunned.
That was nearly 700 Japanese troops. Although they did not have a few artillery support, they at least had a complete defense system. Even if the city wall was blown away for unknown reasons, they would not be able to withstand it for half an hour!
"Captain, I'll lead the commando to charge in person, give me half an hour!" Seeing Wang Xiaoqiang's stupid look in his telegram, the first battalion commander, whose face was already covered in smoke, gritted his teeth and said.
"You'll charge!" Wang Xiaoqiang woke up from the shock and glared at the battalion commander of his Sharp Knife Battalion. "Order the attack ahead to slow down the firepower from the flanks. The four-line regiment will arrive in 30 minutes at the latest. As long as they come, the Japanese here will collapse!"
"Then you won't ask for your drink? With the amount of alcohol in Commander Tang, your little military salary..."
"How many brothers can be killed, let alone invite Tang Dao to drink, so what if he invites his entire group to have a big drink?" Wang Xiaoqiang did not feel bitter because of the bet, but instead looked into the distance with a smile. "Besides, the money for the wine is not enough to support the Japanese supplies warehouse! I don't panic, why are you panic?"
The 772nd Regiment's offensive declined as the Four-Road Regiment entered the city, but everyone knew that it was only a short time. It won't take long to complete the Japanese defensive positions in the three cities area, like Donomian dominoes!
The two infantry battalions of the Second Brigade of the Public Security Army located in Dongcheng faced three infantry regiments of the 17th Division, but they were different from the Japanese defensive positions. They suffered almost all artillery attacks, and they had not even seen the shadows of the infantry of the 17th Division.
It was not until the fire of gunfire began to sound in the area of the city that the two infantry battalions, which had been half-destroyed by artillery fire, realized that the army opposite had entered the city, and the reinforcements that the brigade commander had promised had not arrived yet and they were abandoned.
Nearly 600 remaining puppet troops who had collapsed in their mentality took the risk to raise white flags on the top of the city!
The 17th Division was also the only unit that did not pay any casualties in the siege. It only consumed some shells and bullets, which was also a special benefit for the 17th Division.
Although there are more than 1,200 infantry battalions in the two puppet army, they will not cause much trouble to the 17th Division in terms of fighting spirit or weapons and equipment.
After all, the week when I was carrying the 39th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army alone in Weiluling, the 17th Division suffered huge casualties.
But Tang Dao did not expect that the unit was timid after being beaten up by shells. He shot and shot one shot, and in the 70th minute after the siege, he collectively surrendered.
The three gates of Shimen, "Western, East, and South" were opened in sequence within 90 minutes after the launch of the Tang Dao General Attack. Their collapse speed was ranked among the top three in the entire history of the Patriotic War.
Tang Dao, the main attack mission of breaking the city, gave Zhao Daqiang a company, but he did not favor one or the other. The next order was to assist the 772nd Regiment in the South Gate to defeat the stubborn enemy. Qian Dazhu's fourth consecutive kills of the second battalion went to the direction of the railway station, while the second company from the first battalion's guards from the east merged with Cai Yongguan's fifth consecutive kills of the second battalion to the Japanese command center in Shimen City and wiped out all enemies on the way.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The reconnaissance company has at least three firepower groups and two infantry companies' main forces converge, leading the way while launching a killing kill on the Japanese army that dared to resist on the march.
Two infantry companies, which were once officers of the Sichuan Army and had the title of Steel Company, were almost unstoppable as the Asahi Japanese Army Command.
That was the 20th Division headquarters of Saburo Kawakishiki who once served in the Ishimen!
Although Kawada Kawada sent most of the reserve teams he had on hand, he never neglected the protection of the command center.
Nearly 200 people guarded various key points, including heavy machine guns, light machine guns and two 90 mortars. Cai Yongguan, who arrived first, did not fight blindly after tentative attacks. After testing several important firepower points of the Japanese army, he used a radio to notify the artillery battalion that was still staying outside the city. Four Bofos mountain cannons fired under the guidance of artillery observers advancing with the infantry.
This was a big bad for the Japanese army who tried to resist by relying on buildings and fortifications.
The 90-caliber mortar has excellent performance and can provide sufficient artillery support to the frontline infantry, but that doesn't mean that it can fire against mountain cannons 5,000 meters away! The range of more than 2,000 meters can't even touch the side of others?
If others can hit you, but you can’t hit others, the result will be a beating.
The information has long shown that in order to ensure absolute safety, after entering the city, the Japanese army drove away all the Chinese residents living in the 500-meter area around the 20th Division, and even demolished all the houses around 50 meters.
This has not relieved the artillery soldiers of a lot of psychological burden! Four Bofos cannons can be fired without any scruples.
When the two Japanese infantry artillery were also set up on the roof 800 meters away and bombarded all targets that the Japanese command could attack, the Japanese army hiding inside could be said to have been beaten to tears.
Fortifications that can withstand heavy machine guns were blown into flying parts under the rampage of infantry artillery and mountain artillery, including human bodies hiding in it.
Most of them, without even a single shot, were blown into a pile of minced meat by shells.
Two 90s have tried to fight back, but after being chased by the four mountain cannons, the two 90s have completely stopped.
War is also a part of life. Since you can't resist, then enjoy it! Even if you enjoy it only despair.
At this moment, the remaining Japanese soldiers finally realized what the Chinese soldiers they faced on the battlefield in North China that could only be covered by their artillery fire. It was probably the same as their extremely desperate mood at this time.
No matter how strong the fortress is, it is fragile in the face of the raging fire of artillery.
A tough will can certainly form another tough line of defense, but a line of defense is accumulated with life!
Just like the former Songhu, facing the Japanese invaders' planes and giant cannons, China paid the price of 300,000 officers and soldiers killed in battle in March.
The Japanese army in the artillery fire obviously wanted to do this, they wailed in the artillery fire and struggled in the artillery fire, but still did not give up resistance.
They poked out the Type 38 rifle, which was so low in the eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Four Corps, and launched a counterattack on the officers and soldiers of the Four Corps who started to advance from 400 meters away. Then, they became silent again under the bombardment of the 60 mortars not far away.
Although the two armies are fighting each other, from the perspective of the soldiers, this is a group of respectable opponents. However, such opponents are so stubborn and resisting on the territory of others, their spirit seems to be in the wrong place. For such a tenacious and somewhat terrifying enemy, the officers and soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment are to destroy them with more fierce firepower.
The more enemies such as this die, the less harm they will cause to their motherland.
The infantry used bullets to fight back against the enemy's stubborn resistance, and the artillery used precise artillery bombardment to destroy the Japanese army's final will to resist little by little.
Until all the fortifications on the periphery are removed.
Listening to the increasingly clear sound of gunfire outside, Kawada Kazuo, who had already been ashamed, picked up the phone and issued an order to break through the entire army and blow up the baggage warehouse.
As for how many subordinates could receive his orders, he no longer cared about so many. He had done everything a commander should do.
The communications in Shimen City were destroyed by one-third as early as the war began. Until now, it is lucky that 10% of them are still connected.
A clear gunshot seemed so insignificant on the battlefield where gunfires rumbled!
Cai Yongguan, who stepped into the Japanese command center of Shimen City, pulled off the Grand Secretary who was still warm in his body under the recognition of Japanese prisoners of war, and threw it to the communication soldier with disdain: "A Japanese man, Banban, are all the Japanese dead? The commander of such a big city is actually a little Grand Secretary."
Chapter completed!